I usually love pretty much anything Tim Holtz, and especially his Bigz-dies because they cut like butter. I knew I had to get the Chevron -die for paperpiecing, and this weekend I finally had time to play with it.So on I go, running the die through my Big Shot with 4 different patterned papers, poke out the little pieces, put my frame on a double sided tape and start piecing.First piece doesn't fit. The second piece doesn't fit. The third piece doesn't fit. I have 4 x 16 pieces on my desk, all in a jumble, and nothing fits! So I take one of the frames that doesn't have tape on it, and start figuring out why:

It's a chevron right, you'd think each piece was the same size? Nope. Each row has it's unique size, and not all pieces on one row are the same. So, if you are going for the paperpiecing with this die, for the love of god DO NOT POKE OUT THE PIECES! Just pluck them out of their frame one at a time.I did finally finish the card, after having pieced all the pieces back in their respective frames and gotten everything in order:

Saturday, March 29, 2014

I hopped over the February in the 12 tags of 2014, but I'm on board again with March. The stampset I chose was the Time Traveller and I tried to do the second generation tag as well, but my main image didn't really work well with that. So, I decided to go just with the first generation.
I did an ombre-effect on the gentleman by using rusty hinge, vintage photo and walnut stain ink pads.The spritzing is done with stormy sky and pumice stone.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

I finally got my hands on the Tim Holtz spritzer, and was happily surprised that my Promarkers fit in it - so far I've only seen it demoed with Copics and they have a smaller barrel.Sain vihdoin käsiini Tim Holtzin spritzerin, ja olin iloisesti yllättynyt, että siihen mahtui myös Promarkerit. Tässäpä siis kortti spritzerillä ja Promarkereilla Less is More -haasteeseen. Putsasin sabluunan käsidesipyyhkeillä, koska Promarkerit eivät vedellä lähde irti, alkoholipohjaisia kun ovat. Huomasin myös, että pystyin kontrolloimaan ruiskujälkeä paremmin kun pidin vasemmalla kädellä kiinni kynästä ja oikealla ruiskutin - muuten nokka tuntui puristuksen voimasta hyppivän minne sattui.Less is More 163 theme "Masking or stecilling" came almost as ordered, so here is a card made with the spritzer, 3 shades of Promarkers and a stencil from Memory Box. I picked the Promarker colors to fit the enamel dots from Teresa Collins. Since the Promarkers are alchohol based, just water will not clean the stencil. I used hand sanitizer wipes, which worked out great. I also found that I could control the placement of the spray pattern better, if I actually held on to the pen with my left hand while spritzing with my right - otherwise the spray tended to go where ever it pleased.Promarker colors: Pastel Green, Pastel Pink and Pastel YellowStencil: Memory Box Texture Flourish (Style 88519)